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Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888), a British naturalist, left home at age 17 and made his way to Alabama in 1838, where he had heard educated people were in demand. He was employed by Judge Reuben Saffold at Pleasant Hill in Dallas County as a teacher for about a dozen children... Read Full Overview

This new and improved edition of Letters from Alabama offers a valuable window into pioneer Alabama and the landscape and life-forms encountered by early settlers of the state.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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""Letters From Alabama: Chiefly Relating To Natural History"" is a book written by Philip Henry Gosse and published in 1859. The book is a collection of letters that Gosse wrote to his friends and family during his time in Alabama, where he lived for several years studying the... Read Full Overview

Letters From Alabama: Chiefly Relating To Natural History (1859) is a book written by Philip Henry Gosse, a British naturalist and writer. The book is a collection of letters that Gosse wrote to his family and friends during his stay in Alabama in the United States in the early... Read Full Overview

""Letters From Alabama: Chiefly Relating To Natural History"" is a non-fiction book written by Philip Henry Gosse and originally published in 1859. The book is a collection of letters written by Gosse to his family in England during his time in Alabama, USA, where he was working... Read Full Overview

Letters From Alabama: Chiefly Relating To Natural History is a book written by Philip Henry Gosse and published in 1859. The book is a collection of letters written by Gosse to his friends and family in England during his time in Alabama, where he was a naturalist and collector... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.

With the skills of a scientist and the temperament of an artist, Gosse set down an account of natural life in frontier Alabama that has no equal. Written to no one in particular, a common literary device of the period, the letters were first published in a magazine, and in 1859... Read Full Overview

The English naturalist Philip Henry Gosse (1810-88) spent nine months in 1838-9 in a small town in Alabama where he was the teacher at the local school. His time there was unhappy because of the widespread abuse of slaves he witnessed, the support of the practice by his fellow... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview